The above is the headline on a debate at The League, the NFL blog of the Washington Post. I was asked to weigh in and wrote my piece with the angle that fans have every right to root for against a player based on their views. I also detailed the conflict I had with being [...]
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Saint Timothy Has A Bad Senior Bowl
It’s been said “the spread offense is killing the quarterback position from the ground up.” Nowhere was that more evident than seeing former Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow playing yesterday in the Senior Bowl. In a week where he had to answer reporters and protestors about his anti-abortion, um, “Celebration of the Family” advertisement, young [...]
Video: Rejected Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad
UCBcomedy.com sent us this Focus on the Family ad for Doritios featuring Tim Tebow that was rejected. I thought it was well done:
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CBS hypocrisy: We’ll air Tim Tebow ad
Let’s see: CBS in the past has rejected ads from the United Church of Christ promoting gay rights, from PETA and from Moveon.org. But it has no problem running a pro-life ad by Florida quarterback Tim Tebow paid for by the anti-gay hate group Focus on the Family. I wonder why?
CBS’ decision on the Tebow [...]
Tim Tebow’s really bad day on- and off-field
Yesterday was not a good day for Tim Tebow. On top of a bad day of practice for the Senior Bowl, the former Florida quarterback who has cut a commercial for Focus on the Family is the target of a protest by a coalition of women’s organizations unhappy with the anti-abortion-rights message of Tebow’s commercial. [...]
Tim Tebow: I’m not preachy, deserve respect
Tim Tebow has obviously been catching some heat for his taped Super Bowl ad for the anti-gay Focus on the Family, in which he talks (yet again) about how his mother was told she should abort him and didn’t. Tebow spoke out about it:
“I know some people won’t agree with it, but I think they [...]
Tim Tebow cuts ad for Focus on the Family
University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, have filmed a 30-second ad for Focus on the Family that is set to air during the Super Bowl. Focus on the Family is antigay and gave $727,000 to support the passage of the antigay marriage Prop. 8 in California in 2008. Reports the Orlando [...]
Outsports nominated for GLAAD award
We were thrilled to find out we’ve been nominated for GLAAD’s Outstanding Digital Journalism Article award for our ground-breaking article, “Former college football captain was openly gay.” The article chronicles the story of Brian Sims, the defensive tackle who came out to his Bloomsburg University football team in 2000. Since the release of the article [...]
Changing Lanes (2010 Edition)
UPDATE: There are reports of riots on the University of Tennessee campus. If you are in the area, please be extremely careful.
The earthquake who’s epicenter was the Seattle Seahawks firing Jim Mora Jr. has now plowed into Knoxville.
The sudden hire of USC’s head coach Pete Carroll (enjoy that one Seattle fans), left a huge vacancy. [...]
PR for football show targets gay audience
The critics are not kind to Spike’s new comedy, “Blue Mountain State,” which debuts Tuesday. It’s about the sexual hijinks of a fictional college football team (one promo video clip is called “Jerkoff.”) Apparently, the show will feature a lot of skin, both male and female. Writes the New York Times:
The opening episode centers on [...]
Alabama beats Texas in pedestrian BCS game
Alabama beat Texas, 37-21, to win the BCS title game in the Rose Bowl, in a game that was pretty much over when Longhorn QB Colt McCoy hurt his shoulder on his fifth snap and never returned.
‘Bama won the game and their fans can celebrate, but the Tide was less than impressive. It came against [...]
Who will win the Texas-Alabama game?
Unlike Cyd (see post below), I will watch the BCS title game between Alabama and Texas. Not because I think the winner is the college football national champion (no one ever is with this flawed system), but because it’s a game pitting two unbeatens with a lot of national attention. I’m one who watches most [...]
If you wanna skip the BS game…
If you’re like me and won’t be watching the BS game Thursday night, I figured I’d point out what else you can watch on TV. While the networks are throwing up their predictable January reruns, there’s plenty to watch on cable…
MGM Channel has Body of Evidence (right), the 1993 kinky flick starring Madonna.
ESPN2 counter-programs with [...]
Weekend hot jock: Best of 2009
We featured several dozen athletes in our Weekend Hot Jock series this year, so we figured we’d start the new year with a recap of the best of 2009. Maybe the top standout was Minnesota wide receiver Eric Decker.
See other top picks after the jump…
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First woman to officiate college bowl game
This weekend Sarah Thomas became the first woman to officiate a college bowl game, the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl (Marshall beat Ohio, 21-17). The Mississippi mother of two is in her first season officiating college football and earned high enough marks to place her in a bowl game. Thomas said:
It was a little uncomfortable at [...]
